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PuTTY 0.73
- blahyawnblah 7y agoOut of curiosity, why is the version number so low? It's been around forever.
- kbenson 7y agoLikely because no pressure is felt to put out a 1.0. The people that use it know what it is, and don't care that it's not 1.0 or above. It has constant, if low-velocity, development and bug-fixing going on[1] with 28 releases in over 20 years. PuTTY is a known quantity, I doubt anyone is trying to game the marketing to gain usage. For some people, that's a feature. 1: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.html https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.h...
- barkingcat 7y agoWhy does that matter? It's a mature piece of software that has ongoing fixes.
- frou_dh 7y agoThey didn't say it mattered, they said they were curious.
- _bxg1 7y agoThat's exactly the point: a version number <1.0 is the universal signifier for "this isn't ready to be a daily-driver yet". If that doesn't apply to PuTTY, it's a (minor) failure of communication.
- flomo 7y agoOr it is a feature because they don't care about your particular production support issues.
- hnick 7y agoI was curious but couldn't find an answer, how long has that convention been around? Was it in place when PuTTY started in the late 90s?
- barkingcat 7y agoI would suggest that " version number <1.0 is the universal signifier" is the failure of assumption. Many software don't abide by that.
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- dduarte 7y agohttps://0ver.org/ https://0ver.org/
- Paperweight 7y agoCool! Just by putting "0." in front of your version number, you're magically not liable anymore!
- jchw 7y agoPuTTY is fine of course, but just FYI to those who don’t realize it: Microsoft has worked for a while to port OpenSSH to Windows proper. I think they are even shipping it with Windows nowadays. https://github.com/PowerShell/openssh-portable https://github.com/PowerShell/openssh-portable
- kbenson 7y agoI ran into some problems with the agent last time I tried to use it, unfortunately. I would love to be able to use OpenSSH with the new Windows Terminal (well, eventually, the Windows Terminal has some annoying edge cases too, but is very promising, which is acceptable for something in a preview/beta state).
- zamadatix 7y agoWhat's the best replacement for serial port connectivity on Windows? That PuTTY has it's own terminal settings always bothered me but I'm not sure what all is popular.
- rhexs 7y agoAs a guy who uses serial enough to wonder the same thing, my solution was buying a cheap Linux machine. Serial is thousands of times simpler and more convenient to use on Linux. Probably not too helpful if you’re dealing with poorly written windows serial software targeting embedded though.
- bleomycin 7y agoWhat software are you using on linux to interface with serial? I always used screen but it seems there’s probably a better way?
- rhexs 7y agoScreen. Most of the time saved is not having to try to install whatever bizarre serial driver windows needs. Also python if you need to programmatically connect and operate a device over serial. Quite easy.
- BuildTheRobots 7y agoI've been using KiTTY for a while now which was forked from a slightly older version of PuTTY and seems to have far more features (and bugfixes) http://www.9bis.net/kitty/ http://www.9bis.net/kitty/
- LeSaucy 7y agoSaving settings/connections into files which can be sync'd is the killer feature of this fork.
- vortico 7y agoNot to be confused with https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty, a GPU-accelerated terminal for MacOS and Linux.
- berbec 7y agoWhen have you ever been cpu-bottlenecked on your SSH session?
- elsjaako 7y agoSimilarly, I usually install ExtraPutty, because I need xmodem support. Still grateful for Simon Tatham's work. Did you know he also made a great collection of puzzles? https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/ https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/
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- cdubzzz 7y agoI highly recommend the Bitvise SSH Client[0] for anyone looking for more features and (I believe) a better interface. [0] https://www.bitvise.com/ssh-client https://www.bitvise.com/ssh-client
- marvion 7y agoSuperPutty is a nice Addition to get tabs and a session manager with folders: https://github.com/jimradford/superputty https://github.com/jimradford/superputty
- GordonS 7y agoI was going to mention it, but I see someone else got there first :) I've been using SuperPutty for several years now - tabbed UI is really useful, as is the folder organisation of lots of connections.
- Alex63 7y agoHaven't tried SuperPutty, but I find that Putty + ConEmu is good for a tabbed UI.
- astatine 7y agoAfter using PuTTY for many years, and then Bitvise SSH client for some more, I shifted to Termius. The thing that finally made me switch from both the earlier really good products was its ability to work across Windows/Mac and Android, and syncing hosts/credentials across the instances. It has a free version which provides SSH and port forwarding and a paid one with more features. https://termius.com/ https://termius.com/
- cdubzzz 7y agoInteresting! I had no idea Terminus has a desktop version. It's really wonderful on mobile devices... has saved my ass a couple of times.
- snagglegaggle 7y agoThat looks very nice. I appreciate the link. Are you (or is anyone) aware of open source alternatives? I really like how it shows the terminal, but kind of separate from the phone UI. A lot try to show you the terminal as the phone UI and it does not work well.
- alibert 7y agoI'm been using a pretty "obscure" fork named PuTTY CAC. The big feature added is that you can use it with a SmartCard including a Yubikey. I know the most popular use of Yubikey + SSH is via OpenPGP but it involves a lot of things which are not working very well on Windows (namely GPG4Win, unstable gpg-connect-agent, etc.). With this fork, you just need to install the official Yubikey mini driver to have it work with PuTTY CAC. (You will also need Yubikey Manager to configure your key). Connect your Yubikey, launch PuTTY CAC, look in SSH>Certificate, enable Attempt cert auth, Set CAPI cert (choose your Yubikey cert). It even works through Windows Remote Desktop. https://github.com/NoMoreFood/putty-cac https://github.com/NoMoreFood/putty-cac
- m-p-3 7y agoThanks, I've been looking into using the former method but that one seems way more reliable.
- denton-scratch 7y agoI haven't used Putty with a smartcard for a while (about a year); but I certainly didn't have to use a fork. The card was a FSF GnuPG card.
- alibert 7y agoI don't know, I'm still have a vanilla PuTTY and I can't make it work with my Yubikey (PIV mode). There is no setting or anything related to SmartCard or PIV. I'm no expert on this so I may have missed something.
- denton-scratch 7y agoAh. It looks like you have to rely on gpg-agent; gpg-agent understands cards (and PIN-entry). PuTTY knows how to talk to gpg-agent (which simply replaces Pageant). Except I remember ending up with multiple copies of gpg-agent running, for no obvious reason (which had to be killed before I could start a session - hmm. Maybe I remember finding this solution annoying). I think support for PIN-entry had its own annoyances. [Note: I haven't tried this at all recently - I just did a quick search to try to refresh my crumbling memory]
- bedros 7y agoI used to use Putty for all my SSH on windows, until I discovered mobaXterm; it's Fk amazing. not only an SSH client, but you can also browse files at destination, and copy files there from same window; it also has xserver built in to run GUI on destination machine
- zeptomu 7y agoMy advice for people (who want to use SSH on Windows) is to install Git which ships with Git Bash and SSH.
- mkl 7y agoIn my experience WSL is much simpler and more flexible than that. Bash, git, ssh, tmux, and any other Linux utilities you want.
- nothingnewhere 7y agoNo mention of Cygwin? You get all most used Linux terminal applications ported to Windows.
- jhallenworld 7y agoI have several PuTTY requests for serial port: - A pulldown to allow you to select a serial port, as in TeraTERM. I frequently can not recommend PuTTY to non-power users because it lacks this one feature. And yes, I know it's hard, but it's not that hard. - Integrated Zmodem support. I use Zmodem for firmware updates for some embedded applications. It works great over TeraTERM. - Sixel support (as in xterm), so that embedded applications can print graphs through the console serial port.
- majkinetor 7y agoAlready available on Chocolatey: cinst putty FYI, kitty, putty fork has some better options cinst kitty https://chocolatey.org/packages/putty https://chocolatey.org/packages/putty https://chocolatey.org/packages/kitty https://chocolatey.org/packages/kitty